Wichita eagle., 1887-10-05
JUST HIS LUCK.

things happens IN TINS world.
II knowed that thar fellow what Just rid by
| here erwhile ago when he was er boy, and
| knowed him all erlong through life to the
present time, and it was said that he was the
smartest boy in the settlement, and when he
was er young man it was said he was the
luckiest fellow in the settlement, and it
did look like luck to me, for he never turned
his hand to anything when he first started
out in life but what it was sure to turn out
well and make him money, and fore he
was % years old he'd bought two likely
niggerS and had bis farm well stocked
But he amt got no farm now and he amt got
nothin' else, and its because his luck changed
His name is Jasper Green"
Plunket stopped to take a chew of Browns
tobacco, and then continued:
"Thar's Squire Simmons, who lives yonder
where you see that fine barn, was just the
same age of Jasper Green, and they war
raised boys together. and while everybody
said that Jasper was smart and lucky, they
had 20 say that Squire was er fool and the
unluckiest cuss that was ever allowed to live
at ALL"
Old man Brown agreed with Plunket, and
stated that he remembered the raising Of both
boys, and "it was just that way"
Squire Simmons was er green one," con-
tinued old man Plunket, "and when l remem-
Der how he used to git GROUND in his coperas
britches and jeans jacket at the parties in the
settlement, | can't tell how he ever did turn
out like he has, er how he ever got the woman
for err wife that he has got"
Gle got her." said old man Brown, "and ne
had Jasper Green ergin him, for Jasper
wanted the same girl, and the girls father
and her old aunt, that lived erlong with 'en,
were agin Squire, too, and called him CT fool,
and unlucky and gauisy, and the old man
swore he should never have her, and told him
to never darken his door ergin Her maiden
name was Lula Bright"
"Well, you see," said old man Plunket,
growing somewhat animated as the fountain
Of memories began to stir; II know
all erbout the whole business. Old man
Bright had watched Lula and Squire
erlong time and he seed that she was always
ertalling UP for him, and he seed that Squire
thought more of Lula than lie did of anybody
else, and be took to trying to bring him out
and make something Of him, but old Bright
got Disguised with Squire's awkward ways,
and then he went to work and tried to git his
girl disguised too, but he couldn't
"The first thing that old man Bright done
for Squire, to kinder bring him out, was to
give him young horse. for Squirrels dada
was drunkard and never did have nothing
to help any Of his children with. Squire got
the young horse home and him and his dada
turned in and broke him to work TO er little
old one horse wagin what they hal, but he
was as wild as buck, and one day while
they war passing erlong, Squire driving and
the old man walking erlong with his gun
looking out for er turkey, they met three or
four boys of the settlement and one Of em
was Jasper, and they would have Squire to
stop and talk er while, and as he stopped the
old man didn't go very far till he set down
on er rock, and Jasper hadn't been GROUND
the horse long till he seed how slitish he was
of strangers, and SO he'd just shuttle his foot
on the ground little and the horse would
shy, and Squire was busy talking TO the other
boys and didn't take no notice Of what was
going on, till Jasper, Citing er little closer
and closer to the horse, ell at once give big
shuttle on the ground and out jumped the
horse down the road, kicking and er flynn.
and the old man was terribly excited and
Jasper lowed to him:
"'Shoot the horse, shoot the horse, he'll kill
your son. and the old fool blazed erway and
down lie fotch him. They skint the horse,
put the skin in the wagin, AID the old man
and Squire took hold and were pulling the
wagin on back home, when who should they 1
meet but old Bright
:''Hellor said old man Bright; where's
your horSe!
"'Thar's what's left of him, said Squire's
dada, pointing to the hide.
"When the people in the settlement hered
Of it they all said, Just his luck, just his
luck But Lula she cried when she hered
erbout it, and old Bright didn't like it, and
be thought he'd give Jasper another young
horse what he had there and see how he'd
come out with 'em, and maybe Lula would
see the difference III the two fellows and be-
come disguised with Squire. So old Bright
he didn't let on, but he gave the horse to Jas
per, and the first thing anybody knowed he
had him broke and was cutting shines round
the settlement, riding out the girls and hav-
ing er fine time. Old man Bright let it run
on this way for some time, till at last he
called his daughter To- him and pointed out
the difference III the two young men, citing
the horses rs an example. Lula she Just
cried and went erlong, and Jasper he'd ride
over in his buggy to see the BrightS, and
Squire he'd walk over to see 'em, and old
man Bright thought he'd done the very
best thing he could have done to break I'D
the attachment that was evident between his
daughter and Squire.
after that" continued old man Plunket,
Il remember that one day the two young
men happened to meet at old man Bright's,
and the old man he'd got some fine seed corn
from off someNhere, and as it was corn plant !
ing time he give the young fellows an equal |
number of grains, and they were to plant in |
q rich spot and sit in the seed of il. Jasper |
he went home and fixed his ground up well |
and planted his grains, and it waIn't no great |
while before the corn was up and looking iine. |
Squire he went home and picked out q rich |
pot just hack of bis mama's garden and fixed |
bis ground and laid or his burrows, and then |
took his corn and went erlong and dropped |
the grains, intending to cover when he got |
through dropping, when 10, as be dropped the |
last grain and Strengthened himself and |
turned, he seed that an old rooster had been |
right behind him all the time and picked up |
the grains as fast as he had dropped 'em. and |
people, when they hered Of it, just lowed its
MS luck, its his luck, and it looked that way
ID me.
"When old man Bright continued old man |
Plunket, seed that nothin else would do, be |
got mad and forbid his daughter ever speak
ng to Squire ergin, and he told Squire never
20 dGrken lis door if be didn't want 30 git |
shot, and the Squire knowed old Bright was
sr tough customer, and that he'd do Just |
what be said.
s'Old Bright had er niger named Pomp
hat loved his young mistress, and hated Jas
Der Green, for Jasper was mighty bad erbout
and he carried little notes from
Squire to Lula, and from Lula back to
Squire, and in the course Of er year or so
sor,ire had fixed THINGS NJ, so that he wouIi